Month: November 2008

Here’s an interesting Operations Manager issue I came across today. If you happen to have accounts beginning with an exclamation mark (!) then you might want to check this out before firing up the OpsMgr console: ======== Issue: When using the Operations Manager 2007 console on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computer, if…

Just in case you missed it, the folks on the System Center blog announced that the OpsMgr 2007 R2 beta is now available for download. For details on what’s new and how to get it see http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/11/20/operations-manager-2007-r2-beta-now-available.aspx. J.C. Hornbeck | Manageability Knowledge Engineer

Just a quick FYI that we’ve launched a new MDM specific blog covering the same kind of news and support information you see here. On the blog we’ll be covering some of the new support issues we come across as well as any news relating to the product that we think you might be interested…

Here’s an interesting OSD related issue I got from Vinay Pamnani, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group. If all your Vista or Win2K8 deployments mysteriously end up on the D drive then maybe this is your issue: ======== Issue: When deploying Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 via OSD, the installed operating system shows…

Reporting is the word of the day so here’s another OpsMgr Reporting issue you may run across. This one is caused by what turns out to be the root of oh so many problems: Misconfigured TCP/IP settings: ======== Issue: When you try to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting, the installation may fail with…

I’m going through a couple older issues and posting the resolutions just in case one of you happen to see the same thing. The first regards running DBCreateWizard on a 64-bit OS: ======== Issue: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with BadImageformatException when run on a 64-bit OS: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Mom.UI.Wrappers, Version=6.0.4900.0,…

Here’s an interesting one I came across that I think you’ll find interesting. This one covers a message you may get if you’re using the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003: ======== Issue: When you open the System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting console you may get the below error. System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content…

Today’s tip comes from a Ryan Anderson, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our Texas office. If you’re getting 2407’s after an upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 then Ryan may have your solution: ======== Issue: After upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2 or SP3 to the Select version of Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, you…

Here’s another cool OSD tip from Frank Rojas. If your clients are joining the domain like you expect then maybe this is what you’re running into: ======== Issue: A client does not join the domain if the Computers container is specified as the Domain OU in the "Apply Network Settings" task of a Task Sequence…

Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification exam as well as a 25% discount on an additional exam. You better hurry though as you have to sign up by December 31st. ======== Second Shot now gives you two incentives to get certified! In the real world,…